Tag Archives: Criminal

Although defendant claims he was prejudiced by police failure to disclose allegedly exculpatory information, including a document found in his motel room with another person’s name, police testimony about an indentation on defendant’s face, and that an officer failed to ...

A defendant convicted of aggravated malicious wounding for beating his girlfriend in the face so that she required surgical placement of metal plates to hold together facial bones is not entitled to a new trial for “after-discovered evidence” because the ...

A defendant who allegedly moved from New York to Virginia can be prosecuted for failure to update his sex offender registration after traveling in interstate commerce as required under the Sex Offender Registration & Notification Act,18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), as ...

In sentencing defendant for tax and wire fraud, a district court erred in calculating the tax loss from a non-random sample of audited returns, but the error was harmless and the 4th Circuit affirms defendant tax preparer’s conviction and his ...

A defendant convicted of a firearm offense in connection with his spraying 22 rounds from an AK-47 into a nightclub parking lot after a confrontation with rival gang members can have his sentence enhanced under the Armed Career Criminal Act, ...

We all complain, but at least one Virginia prosecutor is prepared to step up and throw the book at the weather gods for damaging public property and interfering with justice. You can read the indictment of Mother Nature at Ken ...

The fact finder could conclude that defendant acted under a single intent when he first shoplifted a boy’s blazer from a Nordstrom’s department store, then returned 20 minutes later and shoplifted a pair of pants, and the Court of Appeals ...

Even if the record evidence is insufficient to prove that defendant starved a 20-year-old rescue mare of food and water, defendant violated Va. Code § 3.1-796.66 if she failed to provide the mare with necessary emergency veterinary treatment, and the ...

A woman who became belligerent when an officer made a traffic stop of the car in which she was a passenger, repeatedly cursing at the officer and ignoring his warnings not to approach the officer as he investigated the driver, ...

Although defendant contends there was insufficient evidence to prove he knew the character or composition of the cartridge containing smokeless gunpowder police found in his pocket when he was searched incident to an unrelated arrest, the Court of Appeals affirms ...